Author: XenophonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Memorable Things of Socrates. In Four Books. Translated from the Greek of Xenophon. A New Edition, Corrected and Improved. To which is Prefixed, Observations on the Life, Character, and Doctrine of Socrates
Author: XenophonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Commentaries of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus. Translated from the Greek, by Mr. Thomson
Author: Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome)Publisher:
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Category : Philosophy, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
The philosophical dictionary, from the French
Author: François Marie Arouet de VoltairePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Philosophical Dictionary
Author: VoltairePublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The History of Charles XII ... Carefully Corrected
Author: VoltairePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon
Author: Michael A. FlowerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107050065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Introduces Xenophon's writings and their importance for Western culture, while explaining the main scholarly controversies.
Stolen Legacy
Author: George G. M. JamesPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1627930159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
For centuries the world has been misled about the original source of the Arts and Sciences; for centuries Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have been falsely idolized as models of intellectual greatness; and for centuries the African continent has been called the Dark Continent, because Europe coveted the honor of transmitting to the world, the Arts and Sciences. It is indeed surprising how, for centuries, the Greeks have been praised by the Western World for intellectual accomplishments which belong without a doubt to the Egyptians or the peoples of North Africa.
Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004396756
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1027
Book Description
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Socrates, edited by Christopher Moore, provides almost unbroken coverage, across three-dozen studies, of 2450 years of philosophical and literary engagement with Socrates – the singular Athenian intellectual, paradigm of moral discipline, and inspiration for millennia of philosophical, rhetorical, and dramatic composition. Following an Introduction reflecting on the essentially “receptive” nature of Socrates’ influence (by contrast to Plato’s), chapters address the uptake of Socrates by authors in the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Late Antique (including Latin Christian, Syriac, and Arabic), Medieval (including Byzantine), Renaissance, Early Modern, Late Modern, and Twentieth-Century periods. Together they reveal the continuity of Socrates’ idiosyncratic, polyvalent, and deep imprint on the history of Western thought, and witness the value of further research in the reception of Socrates.
Greek Memories
Author: Luca CastagnoliPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108691331
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Greek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and practices of memory in the Greek world, from the archaic period to Late Antiquity, across all the main literary genres, and to trace some fundamental changes in these theories and practices. It explores the interaction and development of different 'disciplinary' approaches to memory in Ancient Greece, which will enable a fuller and deeper understanding of the whole phenomenon, and of its specific manifestations. This collection of papers contributes to enriching the current scholarly discussion by refocusing it on the question of how various theories and practices of memory, recollection, and forgetting play themselves out in specific texts and authors from Ancient Greece, within a wide chronological span (from the Homeric poems to Plotinus), and across a broad range of genres and disciplines (epic and lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, historiography, philosophy and scientific prose treatises).
Preface to Plato
Author: Eric A. HAVELOCKPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674038436
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Plato's frontal attack on poetry has always been a problem for sympathetic students, who have often minimized or avoided it. Beginning with the premise that the attack must be taken seriously, Eric Havelock shows that Plato's hostility is explained by the continued domination of the poetic tradition in contemporary Greek thought. The reason for the dominance of this tradition was technological. In a nonliterate culture, stored experience necessary to cultural stability had to be preserved as poetry in order to be memorized. Plato attacks poets, particularly Homer, as the sole source of Greek moral and technical instruction-Mr. Havelock shows how the Iliad acted as an oral encyclopedia. Under the label of mimesis, Plato condemns the poetic process of emotional identification and the necessity of presenting content as a series of specific images in a continued narrative. The second part of the book discusses the Platonic Forms as an aspect of an increasingly rational culture. Literate Greece demanded, instead of poetic discourse, a vocabulary and a sentence structure both abstract and explicit in which experience could be described normatively and analytically: in short a language of ethics and science.
